Definition of "tack together" [tack together]

• Create by putting components or members together (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But when I proposed this idea at the opera-house, nobody would so much as hearken to me, and I was obliged to tack together music and dances in the usual manner: on this account the divertissement, although full of charming ideas which do not diminish the beauty of scenes, succeeded but very middlingly."